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OPINION: Why Can’t Justice Punish and Heal at the Same Time?

by Marcus Harrison Green

(This column is co-published with The Seattle Times) 

Yonas Seifu and Devon Adams have desperately sought wholesale healing from a justice system capable of supplying them only scraps. 

In 2006, Seifu nearly died after a bullet randomly struck him in the head while he sat on the couch at a Lake City house party hosted by University of Washington fraternity brothers. 

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